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David Wiley developed the first open content licenses. His Open Publication License, which he developed in 1999 as part of his Open Content initiative, preceded the Creative Commons licenses.

David Wiley runs an Open Content website: http://opencontent.org.

This website includes his blog: http://opencontent.org/blog

==Article "A Beginner's Guide to Blogs for Instructional Technologists"==
Wiley's website includes an article called "A Beginner's Guide to Blogs for Instructional Technologists": http://opencontent.org/docs/begin_blog.html

In this article David Wiley states that the term "weblog" was invented by Jorn Barger in 1999, and gives a link to Barger's original 1999 page (http://www.robotwisdom.com/weblogs), where Barger gives this definition:

:"A weblog is a webpage where a weblogger 'logs' all the other webpages she finds interesting."

==OpenContent Wiki==
David Wiley also operates an OpenContent Wiki: http://opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

The OpenContent Wiki includes a page on maintaining wikis: http://opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=Maintaining_a_wiki. On this page it is stated that:

:"A wiki without contributors is nothing but a blog on steroids."

==Links==
*David Wiley's OpenContent website: http://opencontent.org
*David Wiley's blog: http://opencontent.org/blog
*A list of writings: http://opencontent.org/blog/writings
*A paper about the Open Publication License: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/329  

==Wikipedia articles==
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Wiley
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_content
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Publication_License

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